School of Computer Science and Statistics
Background I’m happy to consider compelling project proposals that involve hardware, networking, security or wireless technologies. Ideally they will be well aligned with my research interests. Please get in touch In recent years students have worked on projects in security and crypto, VPNs, homomorphic encryption, Vehicular Networking, Distributed online control, Underwater communications, music visualisation and … Read more
The perception of speech has been studied extensively, due to its importance in our society. Sign language is an alternative form of communication, primarily adopted by individuals that are deaf, with severe hearing impairment, or with severe difficulties speaking to physically speak. However, it is unknown how the brain of the “listener” transforms sign language … Read more
The historical records relate to Coolattin, a major landed estate in Wicklow, Ireland belonging to Earl Fitzwilliam, in the mid 19th century. The National Library has the estate papers, which include bound volumes of beautiful estate maps by townland, each with a list of tenants and the size of their landholdings. The Fitzwilliam Estate also … Read more
The Research Ireland-funded ClearWay project [2] is investigating new models of road management is which each vehicle is allocated a slot in which to travel for the duration of its journey. Adherence to travelling in its allocated slot ensures congestion-free travel from source to destination for each vehicle (in the absence of unexpected events). A … Read more
Deployments of micro-services to Kubernetes clusters can consist of a variety of implementations and their interaction can result in very complex system behaviour. Chaos Engineering is a testing strategy that exposes these deployments to a variety of stress tests in order to reveal potential bottlenecks and system failures. Current approaches to Chaos Engineering provide functionality … Read more
The Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) protocol has been proposed as the transport protocol for HTTP3. The protocol is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and facilitates a number of features in comparison to the traditional Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) such as streams and connection identifiers. Current, implementations of this protocol have been realised … Read more
Traditionally, Kubernetes has been designed to manage clusters of servers and distribute processing load over them, while providing resilience and scalability. Various approaches have been proposed that stretch the traditional Kubernetes concept to multi-cluster solutions where hardware from multiple providers are combined and deployments can be distributed over available hardware according to a variety of … Read more
Current communication between devices and cloud infrastructure for the Internet of Things is based largely on IPv4 or IPv6. Information-Centric Networking (ICN) proposes to retrieve information from the ‘network’ based on named content instead of focussing on communication with a endpoints identified by addresses. Traditional sensors such as temperature sensors, GPS etc can be seen … Read more
Currently, communication protocols are developed based on best practices, intuition, and discussion amongst developers. The performance of these protocols is then measured in terms of throughput, use of available bandwidth, scalability, etc. These measurements demonstrate the performance of a protocol but do not give any indication about the quality of the design of the protocol. … Read more
In contrast to conventional web-browsers and servers, solutions for embedded systems are challenged by resource restrictions such as limited memory and processing power, reliance on battery power and restricted connectivity to communication networks. Concential web-browsers and servers are moving towards employing a combination of HTTP/3 and QUIC, potentially with WebTransport being based on top of … Read more